How to Enable Registry Editor??

Sometimes Registry Editor is also disabled. Whenever you try to open regedit, Windows will show following error message:

By enabling registry editing, you are giving yourself the ability to remove programs that are locked into your system.

Here I have 3 methods to enable Registry Editor (regedit), try one of these methods:

Method 1

• Click Start » Run » type gpedit.msc and click OK.
• Navigate to this branch:
  

  User Configuration / Administrative Templates / System / Prevent access to registry editing tools

• Double-click the Prevent access to registry editing tools option.
  
• Set the policy to Not Configured.
  

Method 2

Click Start, Run (or Press “Windows Key + R“) and type this command exactly as given below: (better – Copy and paste)

REG add HKCUSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPoliciesSystem /v DisableRegistryTools /t REG_DWORD /d 0

Then if a prompt will come up with this question: “Value DisableRegistryTools exists, overwrite (Y/N)?” Type yes and hit Enter.

Method 3

Getting into the registry editor by making a VBS script in notepad:

Open Notepad and copy this script into it  and save it as RegTool.vbs on your desktop.

Option Explicit
‘Declare variables
Dim WSHShell, rr, rr2, MyBox, val, val2, ttl, toggle
Dim jobfunc, itemtype
On Error Resume Next
Set WSHShell = WScript.CreateObject(“WScript.Shell”)
val = “HKCUSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPoliciesSystemDisableRegistryTools”
val2 = “HKLMSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPoliciesSystemDisableRegistryTools”
itemtype = “REG_DWORD”
jobfunc = “Registry Editing Tools are now ”
ttl = “Result”
‘reads the registry key value.
rr = WSHShell.RegRead (val)
rr2 = WSHShell.RegRead (val2)
toggle=1
If (rr=1 or rr2=1) Then toggle=0
If toggle = 1 Then
WSHShell.RegWrite val, 1, itemtype
WSHShell.RegWrite val2, 1, itemtype
Mybox = MsgBox(jobfunc & “disabled.”, 4096, ttl)
Else
WSHShell.RegDelete val
WSHShell.RegDelete val2
Mybox = MsgBox(jobfunc & “enabled.”, 4096, ttl)
End If

Or you can download RegTool.zip , extract and double-click RegTool.vbs.

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